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I've shared this before but in recent years (basically Win8+) it's actually been the opposite. I've had to help companies set up Linux systems running wine because they have better compatibility with ancient "must have" applications.

These days for 90% of users, the only "must have" application is a web browser anyways.

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It works until you need Excel. I have yet to find a business which doesn't use Excel in some capacity. As in proper Excel, not somewhat dubious compatibility Excel (LibreOffice).

I'd still argue large swathes of things we take for granted on other platforms don't exist or don't work either.

Most of my office uses Excel for the web because it seems more responsive than the Win32 version.

I guess they are using only basic stuff, given how behind Microsoft 365 is from the native counterparts in features.

To be honest, probably. The vast majority of users don't need the advanced features of excel. I've seen people be awed by pivot tables. I'm sure some people need those extra features, but I'm guessing vloopup is about as fancy as it gets.

We do it for all of our quarterly planning so that's a sync with Jira as a datasource, multiple tables and pivot tables, etc. I'd say the whole thing is probably a few MB.

I don't know where you'd start to see a performance difference compared to Excel for Win32.

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